The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and the Janusz Kurtyka Foundation present a meeting with Polish historians Professor Andrzej Chwalba and Dr. Damian K. Markowski, entitled In the Shadows of the Looming Invasion: Poles, Ukrainians and Bolsheviks in 1918. The meeting will be held online on Zoom on November 22nd, at 2.00 pm (EST) and is organized in conjunction with the English-language publication of the following books: Professor Andrzej Chwalba’s book The People of Poland at War: 1914-1918 and Dr. Damian K. Markowski’s book Lviv Or L’viv? Two Uprisings in 1918.
These volumes are prizewinners of the annual Janusz Kurtyka Award. The meeting is open to the public and admission is free.
Zoom Link to the meeting: https://zoom.us/j/95490721989
About the authors:
Professor Andrzej Chwalba is an eminent Polish historian and researcher of social, cultural, and political history. He is head of the Historical Anthropology Department at the Jagiellonian University, specializing in the social and anthropological history of World War I and World War II, Polish-Russian relations, and the history of Kraków. He is a member of the editorial staff of a number of scholarly journals and research boards such as the Council of the Museum of World War II and the Museum of Polish History. He has authored over 20 books, many of which have been published in foreign languages (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, English and German). Winner of the First Prize of the Oskar Halecki Historical Book of the Year Competition and of the Second Edition of the Competition for the Janusz Kurtyka Award for his book Wielka Wojna Polaków 1914-1918 (English edition: The People of Poland at War: 1914-1918).
Dr. Damian K. Markowski represents the younger generation of Polish historians and one of the few Polish researchers in the group of specialists in the history of Eastern Europe and the former Polish Eastern Borderlands. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of History of the University of Warsaw. He has taken part in numerous international conferences on history and has authored several academic papers and over a hundred general interest articles and reviews. He has been a research fellow of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland and has received a research grant from the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe and the Polish Aid Foundation Trust in London. He is on the staff of the Office for Commemorating the Struggle and Martyrdom at the Institute of National Remembrance. Dr. Markowski is the prizewinner of the Third Edition of the Competition for the Janusz Kurtyka Award, for his book Dwa powstania. Bitwa o Lwów 1918 (English edition: Lwów or L’viv? Two Uprisings in 1918).
